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Shakopee, Mn, Us

Westport, Ct, Us

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- Led enterprise categories to achieve optimization outputs from our preferred suppliers resulted in continuous savings, meeting SLA contractual standards, and risk mitigation throughout the category. $400M total managed spend.- Successfully lead 2 enterprise-wide RFP’s to achieve standard pricing within our preferred network, implemented baseline SLA’s, added diverse suppliers. Totaling a reduction of suppliers within the current network started with 60 vendors to a total of 9 strategic partners between the RFP’s. In addition, obtaining an executive sponsorship to roadmap a transition to our new suppliers.- Managed risk within the portfolio to diversify our spend away from suppliers with high risk. Led to executive presentations regarding category strategy.- Main point of contact to the business for escalations regarding supplier challenges.

Fremont, Ca, Us

Lead multi-categories across the Seagate Organization. This resulted in exceeding FY21 year-end savings goals by more than 20% savings across IT and Sales/Marketing strategic initiatives in my first full year of employment. Other initiatives include;- Mentoring - Procurement policy reform - Advocate for internal strategic programs and processes across the department internationally

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Foundational Impact: - Implementing an indirect centralized sourcing strategy for EDC across NA, EMEA, APAC- Near completion of an intake process to mitigate risk and maximize savings across the entire organization all while capturing key data points - Authored global purchasing policy championed by SLT - Lead the implementation of an enterprise wide Salesforce based CLM platformEnterprise Projects: - Near completion on a Portal for Marketing (A roadmap to reducing 5 portals to 1, ~84% cost avoidance/savings during the negotiations. Not to mention opex savings, operational efficiencies, etc)- Launched a global translation services program resulting in ongoing savings, mitigating risk, and driving towards a sustainable/managed process. - Negotiated and managed ongoing vendor management with strategic creative agency. Driving spend towards managed partners resulting in savings, operational excellence and consistent quality. In summary, managed indirect categories such as marketing, human resources, sales/customer service, engineering, information technology, enterprise solutions and operations. This resulting in savings of 10% to18% per project.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Improved Element’s value proposition within all customer target market by developing a strategy that directly addressed key product needs.Responsible for creating, implementing and managing new products for the Acquisition and Remarketing Services platforms.Lead a indirect cross-functional teams, multi-functional / complex environment, to successfully bring products to market.Negotiated partnership terms with key strategic vendors.Part of the Integration Team during the Element Financial and GE Fleet were acquisition transition. - Optimized billing solutions for customers during the transition between GE Fleet to Element Financial- Managed expectations with key customer accounts during the GE Fleet transitioning to Element Financial

Creating and managing strategic sourcing plans with business stakeholders along with our key suppliers across North America. These categories include auto manufacturers (OEMs), medium/heavy duty trucks, commercial equipment manufacturers, remarketing, and dealerships.Part of the Integration Team during the Element Financial and GE Fleet were acquisition transition. - Process mapping sessions to best optimize solutions across both organizations- Identified synergies across vendors list across Element Financial and GE Fleet to mitigate redundancies with vendors

Boston, Ma, Us

Responsibilities around indirect/direct Sourcing on behalf of GE Capital. Products and Services including Marketing, Audit Services, Consulting and a strong focus on commercial vehicle supply chain management. Partnering with the business stakeholders to execute a strategic sourcing plan that is utilized across the business.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

Directs and oversees purchasing functions; procurement of products, fleet and manages the overall services provided to the customer. Analyze changes in order to maximize profits and improve quality. Maintains constant communication with vendors, teammates, and the customer.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

The role of the Sourcing/Procurement Specialist is to plan, execute, and finalize purchasing and procurement strategies within the supply chain. This includes acquiring resources within budget and facilitating communication between the vendors and transportation in order to deliver products and services according to plan. Also analyze the retail sales and market analysis to provide intuitive suggestions to the customer that would increase sales.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

Working proactively with functional teams such as sales, marketing and operations, responsibilities include identifying variances based upon historical performance and expected future activities of products, and planning inventory needs for future demand.

Richfield, Minnesota, Us

-- Implementation of new business ideas into the market place-- Team creation of Wi-Fi hotspots